COULD the chief executive of Leighton Hospital please answer this dilemma facing some employees there:

If a worker earns the minimum wage of £5.52 an hour and then has to pay to park their car so as to go to work, is this not reducing the worker’s hourly pay rate to below the National Minimum Wage? Are they indirectly breaking the law? Or are they showing politicians’ attitude to the management of healthcare we can expect in the future by all being potentially ripped off, or if you need medical treatment or need to visit relatives you can if you’ve cash. If not, tough luck?

MARK WALKATE

Queen Street,

Crewe

IT is not much use Leighton Hospital raising parking charges to improve facilities if “customers” can’t access them. It’s not much use being able to choose where one is treated when it is no better at North Staffs. Unfortunately the Welsh hospitals are rather distant. However their advice could be sought on how to run things. Parking charges are quite a bill when one want to visit the sick.